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Franco Maria Ricci Editore
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No.3

Autumn Equinox 2022

2022 / 123 PAGES. Language: English, Italian
2022 has been declared by the UN the ‘Year of Glass’. FMR pays tribute to this versatile material in its own way: one column dwells on the specific difficulties encountered in setting up an exhibition of artistic transparencies, while another very thorough and beautifully photographed piece shows us the work of the Blaschkas, Bohemian craftsmen who populated the museums of the world in the second half of the 19th century with their glass models of marine invertebrates.
Now we voyage to other mysterious creatures of the sea, the Sirens, through an investigation by Maurizio Bettini, with mythological figures painted in Rome, a lesser known series by Pinturicchio. Fashion designer Antonio Marras dedicates admiring words to Roberto Capucci and his iconic clothes, while Archistar Oscar Tusquets Blanca pays homage to the work of one of his predecessors, presenting us with the Umbracle in Barcelona, a curious building in which sun and water rain down from the sky. Another ironic and interesting column tells us about the dizzying prices often fetched in auctions by copies of the Mona Lisa. A good part of the issue then is dedicated to encounters between East and West: the rediscovery of the Greek-Buddhist art of Gandhara which is contrasted by Galileo Chini’s work as decorator of the Throne Palace in Bangkok.
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HORS D'ŒUVRE
“Year of Glass” – Showing Glass
by David Landau
“Ephemera” – The Allure of the Gods
by Antonio Marras
“Auctions” – Fetishes of the Mona Lisa
by Simone Facchinetti
“Bibliophilia” – Butterflies
by Pietro Mercogliano

HOUSE OF SHADE AND RAINFALL
by Oscar Tusquets Blanca
photography by Rafael Vargas
The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.

FROM MT. OLYMPUS TO NIRVANA
by Renzo Freschi
readers from Giovanni Pascoli, Arnold J. Toynbee, Peter Hopkirk
photography by Giovanni Ricci Novara
Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.

GALILEO AND THE KING OF SIAM
by Neungreudee Lohapon, Maurizia Bonatti Bacchini
photography by Massimo Listri
The remarkable work done by Galileo Chini to decorate the Bangkok Throne Hall.

SEA, SAND, AND FLAME: BLASCHKA GLASS
by William Warmus, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Guido Mocafico
photography by Guido Mocafico
Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.

MISTERY! UNSOLVABLE QUERIES AND SIREN SONGS
by Maurizio Bettini
A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.
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